Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 81

Spinsters and Dahith i rc TH em to i I 1 -eV- i Lena Ban vioior 1 By SUZ I the enthusiasm for the circus evidenced by -di rec tors of Spinsters and Dames this week carries overto their annual party June 1 4, at Diablo Country Club the organization's first costume dance will be a "prodigious i presentation of tantalizing terpischore." Led by their president. Mrs JL Pierce-Milton of Orinda the board of directors vj sited the. circus now performing in the Oakland Auditorium, seeking inspira tion for their" circus themed feitivi ty. In the group were vice president; Mrs. Alfred Paul Otto wh is Robert I Atkinson, secretary, Mrs.

John Beckett. Mrs. i Baldwin Woods, Mrs. Thomas Pioberts, and Mrs. Warren Yager, the latter decorations chairman for the event.

SSSf. DEEP IN RESEARCH or their Circus Theme dance June 14 ere these Spinsters and Dames board of directors members. Watching from the corridors which are backstage" at the arena, the young ma-soon were open-' trons mouthed: over the juggler who balances 12 moving ob- pne re jects a at the one time, and aghast high wire act. They met performers both human and animal, and in no time had found the spun VOL CLVI OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1952 NO. 146 Ml sugar candy cones and the pop-corn I man.

While I the annual Spinsters and Dames party has come to be one of the important social functions each 'year in ijthe Eastbay, this CI gathering takes on xcitement with its years new changfijK)Yer from formal evening wear to the costume worjd of make-believe. It was just 18 years ago vid v'Nvb' yf this: week that the then newly ormea spinsters ana Contin bed Page S-5, Col. 7 mi (C for the moment is Mrs. Baldwin C. Woods, PRETTY PACHYDERM is Alice, pne of a "debutante" group, of.

teen-age elephants who do a chorus routine. Prettier inahout in Ptl 1 1 I.J Ml '7 :7 ---f- i i j. whose! baby boy will -be. Impressed in. years to come by his mother's; bravery.

Famous Benefactor Fa i Anthony -C ha bot's Shares Oakland's Historjfj By EILEE4 DELMORE-MURPHY 1 1 Chabot: and the oresent Laket Chabot, ton left, president of Spinsters and Dames, and Mrs. John Beckett, two of those who got to know the circus first hand. CLOWN HARRY; DANN slipped into this! mockery of a dq0rma6's uniform to gvvej the proper welcome to Mrs. J. Pierce Mil-i which dammed San Leandro qreek, Cha Training Confab Bears Results Berkeley Worn Org Jcfr anize en Perpetuated in the names of Chabot Observatory, Chabot Road, Lake Chabot and Anthony Chabot School is theWme pf a man whose family is still represented in Oakland society, more than 100' years after he came to California.

Born Antoine Chabot on a farm near St. Hyacinth, Canada, the pioneer I left home in his early teens. Arriving in Cal-" ifornia, July 18, 1849, he was soon developing his technique of hydraulic rrjhing near Nevada City. If Monuments to his hydraulic engneer-ing ability in Oakland are Lake Temscal, remembered by many old-timers asjake tr bot Road led to the dam whichgave Oakland itsjfirst modern water systrr. Anthony Chabot's home in Oakland was at 210 East 15th Street, ard was torn just a year ago last nonth.

His niece, Mrs. J. P. H. Dunn, remembers the two-story square entrance hall, and the balustrade on the second floor from which she looked down as a child, je-house which burned during the last yar at 7J7 Landvale Road above Lake Temescal, was never a Chabot residence, Mrs Dunn declares, but probably was a house for the 1 13 i i en Home De Committee se i i' I By BUFFER 4 Out of the Western Women's jTraining Conference on Civil Defense, held at 4r i 2 IT, TAKEN FOR A RIDE backstage at the circus was St.

Mary's College earlier this spring1, has come a concrete plan for women's participation in Berklley'scivil defense pictjlre. i ij Known asthe r-jome Defense Committee of Berkeley, the women who attended the St. Mary's onfeence are organized to channel thewoman-power of their city for, effective actidrl in time of disaster. Workina throuaK women's Mrsi rtobert Atkinson, whose willing supporters are Joe Sherman, left, and Laurence Cross, clubs, the P-TA organization, Red Cross and Department of Thomas F. McCarthy, Employment they will assist Col.

Berkeley civil defense co-ordinator. in, recruiting a primary staff of 1 75 foe the evacuation and welfare services of Berkeley's occupational area. i ine TirsT: srep, me commiuee is (aisrriouTing naires to womeli's ofanizations through the Women's Town superintendent of the dam. Another "Chabd Home," and listed as such in today's i i telephone book, Is that at 69 Seventh Street, rjiis was built by Mallacljij Fallon, later occupied by his brother-in-law, JosepH Dillon, and several years latter 'Anthony Chabot's death, was purchased by hisllstate to carry out terms ohis will, establishing a Worn en's Sheltering and jjotective home, which it remains. to this day.

On a block adjoJning An-! thony Chabot's residence grew some of the ivrit persimmons, powering quince, peach andjjapanese magnolias, ever tofbloom' In I California, watched; over by Tom Domoto, father i of A ft A '( I Toichi Domoto of Hayward. -ouncn, compQsea or presiaents ana representatives ot an groupsj Calledfthe One-Two-Three of Civil Defense," the questionnaire asks each registrant for; a statement of a willingness to prepare herself to protect her family tn the1 event of natural disaster or enemy attack, a check list of skills and ex-1 periences in sortie 60fields of activityj ranging from ambulance driver to and staterhent of willingness to enroll in the defense organization, selecting one branch of service preferred. 'J-; 'j I'W'ilV Organization members will return the questionnaires to their club secritarief for transfer toj Colonel McCarthy. Unaffiliated women or those who do not receive the queries from their clubs mayjget eppies direct frorn is office. Heading the Home Defense Committee are Mrs.

G. V. Harris, civil defense co-chairman for 1 1 6th District, California-Congress of Parents; and Teachers; Mrs. Marjoriej Walker, manager of the Berkeley office, California Department of Employment; Mrs. Marion Conklin, executive directoi of the Berkeley-Alban chater of Red Cross Mrs.

H. M. jMichel, chairman of cimmufiity I service projects forj the Berkeley Women's City Club; Mrs. Gerald of the California federation of Women's Clubs; Miss Beks Hubbard, Mrs. Harold E.

Stone and Mrs. Vesta Bates. The local action follows a suggestion made at the St. Mars conference by Mrs. Thalia Si Woods, director of women's affairs, for the Federal Civil! Defense Administration in D.C., that women, take an active part by registering their organization "members fqr civil defense.

These trees and shrubs and i gift to many others were Irom a 1 Anthony Chabot Japanese prince, appre ciation for some kindness or service. Here Chabot also ex-v perimented at growing tea which proved too bitter for enjoyment -These growing lh I ngs were shared with many Oak- landers, some translated to CAMELS ABXrr HZALLY irs jsnpoty as they look; Mrs. Warren Yager, left, and Mrs. ThomasRqberts decided after being introduced to Tiny, and Coogee, prima donnasi Yager is. decorations PROOF POSITIVE that Mrs.

Alfred Paul OttoJr. can get a )ob. in tr-drcus any day is this photograjt taken with juggler 'Francis Brunn, who really started pe spinning. Continued Page 2S, Cot 1 fa.